LIVING IN A LIE

Every "artwork" has its own story. This is also the case for LIVING IN A LIE. Friedel, our designer, started thinking about different associations regarding the title – as he always used to do during the brainstroming phase. There was a design with a "forged" game of chance, then the house of cards collapsing "like a lie" and different motifs taken by our photographer Dirk Schelpmeier from which we liked best the blurred motif of Sandra.

But when we were looking through the vast amount of video material for LIVING IN A LIE, we came across a motif which Sandra had "unintentionally" made famous by wearing her T-shirt in the video for BIG IN JAPAN, the "red" cross or red X respectively. And which we now noticed constantly in the videos taken from our live gigs. It was pure coincidence and almost like "our" sign. Therefore we opted for using it as a cover motif.


And we don’t want to withhold the explanation for that from you, for it’s just simple: the instruments and speakers marked with sticky tape show the roadies and the crew where the things are to be placed in the truck later on. For there has to be an excellent organisation behing fixing up and taking down all the things we are carrying with us when we’re on the road. And so, this labelling with the association of the BIG IN JAPAN video is now immortalized on LIVING IN A LIE.

1. Living In A Lie |Radio Edit | 3:38
Produced by Guano Apes & Wolfgang Stach. Additional producer Fabio Trentini.
2. Rain | Live | live@paradiso - Amsterdam/NL | 5:04
Produced by Guano Apes & Wolfgang Stach.
3. Donêt You Turn Your Back On Me | 3:44
Produced by Guano Apes.
4. Living In A Lie | Album Version | 4:33
Produced by Guano Apes & Wolfgang Stach. Additional producer Fabio Trentini. Tracks 1,3,4 - Engineered by Clemens Matznick, mixed by Ronald Prent.
5. Multimedia Part | For PC & Mac
Created & produced by FUEGO/Friedel Muders & Markus Krüger.

The multimedia part of LIVING IN A LIE contains:

1.) the videoclip "Living In A Lie" (approx. 4 min)
2.) 25 exclusive previously unreleased Guano Apes pictures
3a.) a German video interview with the Guano Apes, approx. 12 minutes long
3b.) an English video interview with the Guano Apes, about 6 minutes long
4.) five "Home" videos from the Guano Apes archives (approx. 9 min)
5.) as a BONUS, the CD comes with five screen backgrounds with Guano Apes motifs for the monitor at home
The entire video material is about 30 minutes long.